Plugging Educational Gaps through Idea Management Services
Innovation is critical to the improvement process and educational sector is not left behind. With continuous demands on education and training to explore new learning opportunities, innovation works out new ways and means to improve the system of education, deliver increased learning outcomes, equity and student satisfaction.
Further, with technological innovations bringing about a sea change in the way the gen next looks at using new technology, the global educational establishments and universities are incorporating technology into the educational system. However, innovation in the education sector is unlimited. With educationists struggling to find out ways and means to improve the present educational system, a creative thought or idea can set a benchmark for future innovations. Global academic institutions over the past years have made use of idea management services to ensure growth in the organization.
Educational institutions in their attempt to gain a strong international footing make use of effective crowdsourcing software and idea generation methods such as contests and events for parents, faculty and students, to capture innovative ideas to work on. U.S. Department of Education in collaboration with National Education Association (NEA), in their attempt to improve the potentials of school education, initiated an open innovation contest. The “Challenge to Innovate” was a platform for numerous teachers to present their ideas which resulted in modification of the traditional classroom model, with a model wherein student involvement in the learning process was much more.
Open innovations have time and again proved the fact that great ideas can also come from outside the walls of the enterprise. Understanding the problems faced by the developing world in providing education to all, the news publication house of ‘The Economist’ in collaboration with innovation agency InnoCentive Inc. challenged the public with a “21st century cyber school challenge”. They offered a $10,000 reward to the person who comes up with the best idea for providing educational opportunities to millions of children in developing nations around the world.
Dr. Andrew Deonarine, a third-year medical resident at the University of British Columbia emerged the winner with his EduCell – a cellular phone-based content creation system to teach literacy and Maths. With the growth of cell phones market gaining grounds, this innovative product would help global institutions and government to plug the educational gap prevalent in the developing world.
However, innovation in the educational sector is not restricted to only academic institutions taking steps for idea management implementation. Leading IT providers like Microsoft collaborate and engage in idea generation techniques and developing crowdsourcing software to assist millions of teachers and students to unleash their creativity to share knowledge for academic growth.
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